http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/06/nasa-lcross-mission-to-bo_n_311038.html

NASA is launching a dramatic mission to bomb the moon.

The LCROSS (Lunar CRater Observing and Sensing Satellite) mission will send a missile traveling at twice the speed of a bullet to blast a hole in the lunar surface near the moon's South pole.

Scientists expect the impact of the Centaur rocket to be powerful enough to eject a huge plume of debris from the moon. The moon dust should even be large enough to be seen from earth through telescopes 10-to-12 inches and larger, says NASA.

So what's our beef with the moon?

The bombing isn't an act of hostility: it's all part of our search for water in space.

The missile will impact the lunar surface at crater Cabeus A (see photo below). The crater is located on the moon's South pole, an area in which scientists estimate there may be billions of tons of trapped ice.


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I say get your moneys worth & nuke that sucker!


c/22

If you get the NASA Channel, they will be showing the event LIVE beginning at 0330 Friday AM. (hey, your getting up to go fishing, anyway..LOL.)

Have also heard that, if you have your own telescope, you'll need a minimum of 10" of aperture in order to see any of the crash or to see the "ejection plume".

Sadly, my little 4" APO refractor hasn't quite got the muscle, so, the TV and hot cup of coffee will have to do.

ISO

The moon deserves it. When it's full it screws up my fishing. If we blow a chunk off can it ever be considered "full" again?

"All that you touch and all that you feel"

Maybe my wife will be a little less moody during a full moon. I say hit it a few times for good measure.

nice try, but if they hit that side of the moon, no one will see it

and if they do find ice, will they serve cocktails after? unlike Parker, i prefer my whiskey "over" not "neat"

Ah....a neat freak.

never happen - sierra club is all over this one. water depletion would endanger the Cabeus A Crater Smelt and destroy the food chain. the bombing alone will get them "threatened" status

My wife pointed out last night:

When did it become NASA's to bomb?

And

If the moon was a solid block of ice, it wouldn't matter because we couldn't get enough of it here to make a difference, except to sell .001ML vials of it at the Air & Space Museum Gift Shop for $1000 each, and even then NASA would lose money on the venture.

well, they did (supposedly ) put men on it first, then they yelled DIBS!

Oh I see, the Soviet Union actually got there first with Luna 2, and so now it's OK to attack it, since it's owned by Commies.

you gotta put real human beings on there to yell dibs it's all for naught, the chinese are already selling timeshares

I don't know maybe it's the flag thing. Something The UK taught India a long time back. No Flag? Ain't yours!

It's a secret conspiracy. The rocket is actually full of H1N1.

I love that Eddie Izzard bit - "Do you have a flag?"

i always thought the russians legally owned the moon. it was part of the alaska land purchase from them. we give them 3 cents an acre for the entire parcel of alaska and we throw in the moon. it was deeded into the deal. if this is indeed the truth the russians are not going to happy with us bombing thier moon.

what happens after we bomb it? we don't have enough troops to invade.... what a complete blunder by Obama!

Lack of proper personal protection for invaders hasn't stopped us before...as Rummy said..."You go to war with the army you have..."...

Betcha a dollar that Halliburton would sell them snorkels...




















































...for $3568.76 each.































Bombs away!
























Fish on...

Todd

Obomba.........hmmmmm